2024

Juhn MS, Balisi MA, Doughty EM, Friscia AR, Howenstine AO, Jacquemetton C, Marcot J, Nugen S, and Van Valkenburgh B. Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology. Paleobiology 1-10.

Wooster EIF, Lundgren EJ, Balisi MA, Lemoine RT, Sandom CJ, Svenning JC, Rowan J, Jolly CJ, Linley GD, Cowan MA, Wright N, Westaway D, Nimmo D, Nichols H, and Middleton OS. Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary terrestrial mammalian predators. Global Ecology and Biogeography e13909.

2023

Schmökel H, A Farrell, and MA Balisi. Subchondral defects resembling osteochondrosis dissecans in joint surfaces of the extinct saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis and dire wolf Aenocyon dirus. PLoS ONE 18(7):e0287656.

2022

Mychajliw, AM, ER Ellwood, PS Alagona, RS Anderson, MA Balisi, E Biber, JL Brown, J George, AJW Hendy, L Higgins, CA Hofman, A Leger, MA Ordeñana, GB Pauly, BJ Putman, JM Randall, SPD Riley, AJ Shultz, MA Stegner, TA Wake, and EL Lindsey. Lessons for conservation from beneath the pavement. Conservation Biology e13983.

Lundgren, EJ, D Ramp, OS Middleton, EIF Wooster, E Kusch, MA Balisi, WJ Ripple, CD Hasselerharm, JN Sanchez, M Mills, and AD Wallach. A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands. Journal of Animal Ecology 91:2348-2357.

2021

Balisi, MA^, AK Sharma^, CM Howard, CA Shaw, R Klapper, and EL Lindsey. Computed tomography reveals hip dysplasia in the extinct Pleistocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon. Scientific Reports 11:21271.

2020

Balisi, MA and B Van Valkenburgh. Iterative evolution of large-bodied hypercarnivory in canids benefits species but not clades. Communications Biology 3:461.

Tong, H, X Chen, B Zhang, B Rothschild, S White, MA Balisi, and X Wang. Hypercarnivorous teeth and healed injuries to Canis chihliensis from Early Pleistocene Nihewan beds, China, support social hunting for ancestral wolves. PeerJ 8:e9858.

Dávalos, LM^, RM Austin^, MA Balisi^, RL Begay^, CM Hofman^, ME Kemp^, JR Lund^, C Monroe^, AM Mychajliw^, EA Nelson^, MA Nieves-Colón^, SA Redondo^, S Sabin^, KS Tsosie^, and JM Yracheta^. Pandemics’ historical role in creating inequality. Science 368(6497):1322-1323.